Thursday, April 4, 2024

Treasure Chest Thursday - 1669 Baptism Record for Joseph Angell (1669-1741) in Chippenham, Wiltshire

 It's Treasure Chest Thursday - an opportunity to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history research and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1669 baptism entry for Joseph Angell in the Chippenham, Wiltshire  St. Andrew parish records:


The burial entry is thethird entry for October in the 1669 list:


The transcription of this record is::

"[1669] Octo[ber] Joseph the son of John Angell was bap: -- 15"

The source citation for this record is (using Evidence Explained 4th edition template):

Chippenham St. Andrew [Wiltshire] Parish Registers, Joseph Angell baptism entry, 15 October 1669; imaged, "Wiltshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812," Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/2355882:61187 : accessed 3 April 2024) > Chippenham, St. Andrew > Parish Registers > 1646-1737 > page 36 (image 44 of 268; citing Wiltshire Church of England Parish Registers, Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England.

This is an entry in the Chippenham, Wiltshire St. Andrew parish register.  It is an Original Source with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the baptism of Joseph Angell, son of John Angell.

Joseph Angell was baptized in Chippenham, Wltshire on 15 October 1669, the son of John and --?-- Angell.  He was buried on 12 April 1741 in Lacock, Wiltshire.  He maried Abigail Cutler (1674-1703) in about 1693 in Lacock.

Joseph and Abigail (Cutler) Angel  are my 7th great-grandparents; they had six children, including my 6th great-grandfather Jacob Angel (1693-1754) who married Betty Brinkworth (1697-1754) in 1718 in Lacock, Wiltshire. 

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 28 March to 3 April 2024

 Welcome to Genealogy Education Bytes, posted on Wednesday afternoon for the past week, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history education items that came across our desktop since the last issue.


1) Upcoming Conferences, Institutes and Seminars

* Conference Keeper Calendar



2 ) Upcoming Seminars, Webinars and Online Classes (times are US Pacific):

* Conference Keeper Calendar - has many links to register for and/or view webinars and classes.

*  FamilySearch Library Classes and Webinars 

*  Family Tree Webinars - Thursday, 4 April, 11 a.m.:   Researching Family History at Your Library with MyHeritage Library Edition by Daniel Horowitz

*  Family Tree Webinars - Friday, 5 April, 11 a.m.:  From This Day Forward – Documenting Marital Unions of Enslaved and Emancipated Persons by Renate Yarborough Sanders

*  Family Tree Webinars - Tuesday, 9 April, 11 a.m.:  RootsTech Recap by Daniel horowitz

*  Family Tree Webinars 24 Hour Marathon - Thursday, 11 April - All Day:    https://familytreewebinars.com/upcoming-webinars/

3) Recent Podcasts/Radio Shows:

*  Ancestral Findings Podcast:  Folklore in Washington | Ancestral Findings Podcast

*  Daniel Loftus Genealogy:  Episode 7 - Find a Grave



4) Recent YouTube Videos:




*  BYU Family History Library:  



*  Copper Mine Genealogy (AKA Genealogy Technology):  Where to Find Tax Records for Genealogy Research

*  DearMYRTLEs Archive:  Mondays with Myrt - 1 April 2024






*  Lisa Louise Cooke Genealogy Gems:  Unlocking The Best Digital Collections Websites!


*  National Gneealogical Society:  Culture Conversation with A'Lelia Bundles



*  The Formidable Genealogist:  New Tool at FamilySearch | Formidable Genealogy


*  Your DNA Guide:  Understanding Mitochondrial DNA

5) Did you miss the last post in this series - Genealogy Education Bytes -  21 to 27 March 2024?

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Grandparents Frederick and Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver and a Little Boy in About 1940 -- Post 814 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

  I can't help it, I can't do a wordless post! This is one of my favorite and most priceless family  photographs: 

This photograph is of my grandparents, Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver (1882-1962) and Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) with a little boy in a garden in Leominster, Massachusetts in about 1940.  This may be at 90 Main Street in Leominster where they resided in the 1940 U.S. Census.  I think the little boy is probably Walter H. "Sonny" Wood Jr. (1936-2010), the son of Walter H. and Evelyn (Seaver) Wood; Evelyn is the daughter of Alma Bessie and Frederick Seaver.  

This photographs is a part of my family history.  I restored. enhanced and colorized the photo using the MyHeritage photo tools.  I am not sure if grandma Bessie's hair is really brown.  

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Memories - What We Did On Our 1998 Mid-Atlantic States Vacation

I have found more of my memoirs that I wrote after some of our summer vacations, and many of them included genealogy highlights. So I'm going to share these memories in a series of posts.  Maybe I'll even find some photos to illustrate the posts.    

What We Did On Our 1998 Summer Vacation

Linda and I took an 18 day grand tour of the Middle Atlantic states, during which we visited Washington DC, Williamsburg VA, Charlottesville VA, Frederick MD, Gettysburg PA, York PA, Lancaster PA, Philadelphia PA, and Ellis and Liberty Islands, and Milford NJ. Whew...warm and humid everywhere! Lots of historic sights and sites, even some genealogy!  We flew in and out of Baltimore, and rented a car.

Washington DC was worth a week of our time. We stayed in Springfield VA (in order to reduce our costs) and rode the Metro into the city most days. The Metro took about 45 minutes into the Smithsonian area each way, but sure eased the access problems! It was very clean and efficient, as advertised.

We went to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum for a day - very impressive, yet it seemed small! I thought it would be all the world's airplanes/spacecraft, and it was only some! We took a guided tour and the docent was a retired aerospace guy. He had great stories about the Wright's and the early astronauts.

The Smithsonian Museum of American History was very disappointing to me: there was nothing addressing the colonial times, the Rev War, or the forces that led/drove our country to its formation. It seems to have just "happened". There was no over-arching sense of events, leaders, attitudes, forces. It's as if Jamestown, Plymouth, Roger Williams, Stuyvesant, Penn, Oglethorpe, Edwards, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, et al didn't exist! But there were the political correct exhibits about Indian displacement, slave holding, even a New Mexican exhibit from the 1500's. Nothing significant about immigration, westward migration, settlement of the West, etc. There were plenty of collections of stuff. There were some interesting exhibits about Thomas Edison and the Manhattan Project. The only mention of the Revolutionary War was a display about a storekeeper in Longmeadow MA who had his store ransacked because his prices were too high and he was thought to have loyalist tendencies. More PC.

The National Archives shows the Declaration of Independence and parts of the Constitution under green glass encased in helium - very difficult to read and the line was kept moving.

We took a bus tour of DC that promised the White House, Capitol, Lincoln and Washington monuments, Viet Nam/Korean War memorials, Smithsonian, and Arlington Cemetery. We went the day of John Gibson's funeral, so the order of events was modified. We drove past the Washington Monument, stopped at the Lincoln/Vietnam/Korean War area, and then stopped at Arlington. We walked to the JFK gravesite, then the Unknown Soldier/changing of the guard area. Then back on the bus, to lunch at the Smithsonian American History Museum (and we had to wait for the funeral to pass down Constitution Avenue). No White House tickets were available, so I walked around the WH and saw a bit of the film at the WH Visitor center. Then off to the Capitol, where we waited a while for tickets to enter, and got into the Rotunda and the lower halls of the Capitol, but not to the galleries. I did see Sen. Phil Gramm in the hallway. There were wreaths outside Tom DeLay's office. Nice artwork in the Rotunda and in the ceilings of the halls.

On a Sunday, we drove to the Jefferson Memorial, then up to the National Cathedral, down Mass Avenue past all the embassies, around the Capitol, over through Georgetown and finally into downtown Arlington for lunch.

Linda went to the Holocaust Museum, the old Post Office Building pavilion (nice photo opportunities at the top of the tower), and the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. She tried to go on an FBI building tour, but couldn't get in.

I spent two days in the Library of Congress doing genealogy research, but did not take the time to take a tour of the building.

Williamsburg VA was great. We saw most of the historic area, and went out to Carter's Grove, which was well done. We saw a play and a musical review in the evenings. We ate in two of the taverns, also. Jamestown was interesting - but we only went to the National Park and went on two ranger tours in the limited time.


We added Charlottesville at the last minute. Great decision, since Monticello was excellent! Very knowledgable docents, good displays, etc. We also visited the Luray Caverns - amazing!

Gettysburg was beautiful. We took a double-deck bus tour (two hours), which was narrated using headphones. It stopped at two places for photos and rest. I got the sense of the landscape, the strategy involved, and the movements of the forces. Then off to York PA, where I spent two hours in the York County Historical Society doing research. That night, the fire alarm went off in our Motel 6...yawn - false alarm.

We got to Philadelphia about noon, and went to the Visitor Center, had a Philly cheese steak sandwich, and then saw Independence Hall, Liberty Bell, and Franklin Court. The guide at Independence Hall was poor - didn't know some basic facts. Franklin Court was super - great displays and a good film about Franklin's life and times.

We stayed two nights with my cousin Jack (and his wife Joan) in the Milford NJ area. They have a beautiful farmhouse on 6 acres in Little York, with a stream and a deer herd nearby. They took us to see Ellis Island, and we saw the Statue of Liberty and the New York City skyline (new for me!) from the boat. Ellis Island was excellent - it really portrayed the experience well, I thought. Great photos, lots of personal stories.


Lancaster PA and the PA Dutch area were interesting, but very commercialized. We took a buggy ride and visited a number of shops. Great food!

Then it was back to the Baltimore airport and we flew home to San Diego.  Linda figured she could use some of the materials we gathered for her 4th grade class.

All through the trip I tried to stay abreast of the national news, and the status of my Padres. The Washington DC newspapers/airwaves were full of l'affaire Lewinsky, while the hinterlands paid little attention. TV at each hotel was spotty - some of them didn't have my favorite cable channels. The radio in the car didn't work (the antenna broke off the first day) so we cruised with the windows down through the countryside. People were very friendly and helpful - we enjoyed talking to other travelers and the folks at the sites we visited.

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Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 27 March to 2 April 2024

 Welcome to Genealogy News Bytes, posted on Tuesday afternoon for the past week, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history news  items that came across our desktop since the last issue.    


1)  News Articles:








2)  DNA News Stories















5)  Did you miss the last post in this series?  See Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 20 to 26 March 2024.

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Seavers in the News -- Obituary of Arthur F. Seaver (1894-1978) of Fort Lauderdale, Florida

 Here is this week's edition of "Seavers in the News" - a weekly feature from the historical newspapers about persons with the surname Seaver that are interesting, useful, mysterious, fun, macabre, or add information to my family tree database.

This week's entry is from the Fort Lauderdale [Fla.] News newspaper dated Thursday, 14 December 1978, page 29, Column 1:

The transcription of the article is:

"Arthur F. Seaver, Dies: Developer, Bomber Pilot

"World War I pilot Arthur F. Seaver, who survived 21 combat missions over France while other members of his squadron only made an average of two missions, died quietly in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea on Sunday.

"Born Feb. 28, 1894, the 85-year-old Seaver was a much decorated World War I veteran who later built 75 homes in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea from 1947 to 1960.

"Seaver earned the U.S. Army and Navy Legion of Valor and the Disinguised Service Cross while serving with the 20th Aero Squadron under General John Pershing in 1917-18.

"'He flew the De Haviland DH-4 Bomber.  When he died, there were only five men from hisu nit who still survived.  He and his commanding officer each had 21 missions,' said Seaver's son, Arthur, Jr.

"Seavers World War I exploits are chronicled in the Aviation Hall of Fame at Wright-Patterson Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio, according to his son.

"Seaver is survived by his wife, dorothea, four children, seven grandchildren, snd his sister, Florence Walker of Lincoln, Neb.

"Private services have been arranged."

The source citation is:

"Arthur F. Seaver, Dies: Developer, Bomber Pilot," Fort Lauderdale [Fla.] News newspaper, Tuesday, 14 December 1978, page 29, column 1, Arthur F. Seaver obituary, imaged,  Newspapers.com  (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 1 April 2024).

This obituary provides the name, birth date, age, death day and place, wife'sname, militry service and occupation, but no parents names, children names, birth place, associations, services, or burial information.

Arthur Freeland Seaver (1894-1978) was born 26 February 1894 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Charles Arthur and Mary Elizabeth (Wilcox) Seaver.  He died 10 December 1978 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  He married Dorothea Hull Moore (1896-1996) on 20 July 1917 in Wellesley, Massachusetts.  They had four children:

*  Arthur Freeland Seaver (1918-2000), married 1943 Laura Margaret Phillips (c1920-????)..
*  Penelope Seaver (1919-????), married (1) 1941 Henry Gaither Fownes (1922-????), (2) 1969 Edward M. Tittmann (1906-1985)
*  William Herbert Seaver (1929-2001), married Sandra Stowell (1934-2020).
*  Marilyn Seaver (1933-????), married 1953 Michael Joseph Grawlich (1928-1998).

Arthur Freeland Seaver (1894-1978) is my 8th cousin twice removed, with the common Seaver ancestor being Robert Seaver (1608-1683) who settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts.

There are over 10,000 Seaver "stories" in my family tree - and this is one of them.   Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and sometimes a person does memorable things in life.  I am glad that I can honor Arthur Freeland Seaver today.  

You never know when a descendant or relative will find this blog post and learn something about their ancestors or relatives, or will provide more information about them to me.

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Monday, April 1, 2024

Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 31 March 2024

 Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week.  

1)  Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) General Meeting on Wednesday.  Pam Vestal presented "“Was Your Ancestor Truly Gone or Just Hidden Within the Records?"

2)  Participated in the "Mondays With Myrt" YouTube video conference for 25 March, and spoke about the need to write stories about the siblings of our ancestors, such as Ann Richman (1851-1853) of Hilperton Marsh, Wiltshire.



5)  Started my new "Memories" blog theme with Memories - Our 1994 New England Summer Vacation.

6)  My famous cousin this past week is 9th cousin Elvis Aaron Presley (1935-1977).

7)  AncestryDNA now has 45,634 DNA matches (up 32 from 25 March) with 1938 "close" matches for me today, with 1 new ThruLines.  I added Notes to 10 new Matches.   MyHeritageDNA now has 12,419 DNA matches (up 25 from 25 March) for me, with no new Theories (I still have 19).  Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  

8)  Occasionally matched RootsMagic 9 profiles to FamilySearch Family Tree.  I have matched 50,868 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 28).  

9) Used Web Hints and Record Matches from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and source citations to my RootsMagic profiles. I now have 72,481 persons in my RootsMagic family tree (up 27), and 146,718 source citations (up 5).  Resolved 38 Ancestry Hints. TreeShared no new and updated profiles with my Ancestry tree.  My Ancestry Member Tree has Ancestry Record Hints with 14,632 to be resolved, but I work on them several times a week.  

10) Wrote 18 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which 3 were a press release. The most viewed post last week was DearMYRTLE's Weekly "Mondays With Myrt" Genealogy Discussion Group Videos with over 187 views.  Genea-Musings had about 25,500 page views last week and over 122,000 for the past month.  

11)  Real life:  This is week 212 (four years on) since COVID restrictions started.   I visited Linda every day at the skilled nursing/memory care facility and we played Uno. Went grocery shopping on Monday and Friday.  Lori and Logan came to visit on Thursday and we've watched basketball and baseball games. Walked several days on the block and talked to the neighbors.   I finished reading Tess Gerritsen's The Keepsake and started Jonathan Kellerman's Unnatural History.  The SDSU Aztec basketball team lost to Connecticut in the NCAA Tournament.  My Padres split 4 games with San Francisco giants and are 3-3 on the season.

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Amanuensis Monday -- 1864 Petition to Partition the Intestate Estate of Lyman H. Seaver (1796-1864) in Walworth County, Wisconsin

 This week's document for transcription is the 1864 petition of Henry W. Seaver to partition the intestate estate of Lyman H. Seaver (1796-1864) in the Walworth County, Wisconsin probate case files.

*  Walworth County, Wisconsin Probate Court Records, Probate Case Files, Case No. 1412, 1864, image 1170 of 1505:

*  Walworth County, Wisconsin Probate Court Records, Probate Case Files, Case No. 1412, 1864, image 1171 of 1505:

The transcription of this document is (typed words underlined, handwritten words italicized):

In Probate County Court Walworth County

Estate of Lyman H. Seaver dec'd   }
In the Matter of Partition               }

To the Judge of said Court
                                                   The petition of Henry
W. Seaver of the town of Darien respectfully repre-
sents that as heir of Lyman H. Seaver of said
town deceased, he has inherited in common
& undivided with Julius H Seaver Mary A Seaver Corning
Lyman H Seaver James E Seaver Rodney Seaver
William Seaver & the children of John W Seaver de-
ceased viz Charles H Seaver Daniel Seaver
Mary A Seaver & James L Seaver ^who^ that the
said heirs are of full lawful age except the
said children of John W Seaver deceased & all
reside in this state except Charles H Seaver
& Daniel Seaver all those parcels of land
in said County described as being the North West
quarter of Section 33 T. 2, R. 15 E the west 
half of the South West quarter of said section,
the North part of the East half of the South East
quarter of Section 32 in said town being 26 acres
lying north of a ??  bounded on the South by the a
private road ^Beloit Road^ running across said 1/2 section and
the S 1/2 E. 1/4 of the N.E. 1/4 of the N.W. 1/4 Sec 28 in T. 
1, in said Range, that the said children of the 
said John Deceased are as heirs of their father
as the issue of their said father entitled inherit
one eighth of said real estate & that your petitioner
and the said Julius H Mary A ^Corning^ Lyman H.
James E. Rodney & William are each entitled 
to one eighth of said premises & that Sally
Seaver the widow of the said Lyman H.
is entitled to Dower in said Estate &
also is seized of an estate for & during her
wido  the time she lives the widow of the
said Lyman H deceased is entitled to the
use of the homestead of said deceased
which is a part of said described land.
Your petitioner being desirous that par-
tition of said Estate may be made would pray 
that Commissioners may be appointed for that
purpose according to the rules & practice of
this Court.                              H. W. Seaver
Subscribed & sworn to before       
Me at Elk Horn in said
County this 9'th day of Sep.
1864.                     Peter Golder
                              Co Judge
                                      Wal. Co. Wis.

The source citation for this petition is:

Walworth County Probate Court, Wisconsin, Lyman H. Seaver intestate file, Henry W. Seaver petition for sale of the real property (images 1170-1171 of 1505), written 9 September 1864; imaged, "Wisconsin, U.S., Wills and Probates, 1800-1987," indexed records with digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 31 March 2024; "Walworth > Probate Case Files, No. 1307-1439," Case 1412, images 1159 to 1177 of 1505; Original data is from Wisconsin County, District and Probate Courts filmed by FamilySearch.

This petition is a Derivative Source (because it is a court clerk's handwritten record), Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the petition of Henry W. Seaver to appoint commissioners to sell the real estate of Lyman H. Seaver, deceased, in the Walworth County, Wisconsin probate court, whichl ists all of the heirs-at-law of Lyman H. Seaver.

Lyman Hunt Seaver (1796-1864) was born 26 October 1796 in Arlington, Vermont, the son of William and Mary (Everett) Sever.  Lyman Hunt Seaver died 1 June 1864 in Darien, Walworth County, Wisconsin.  He married Sarah "Sally" Woodward (1797-1878) on 29 April 1819 in Hebron, New York.  They had 11 children:

*  Joseph U. Seaver (1822-1824).
*  John Woodward Seaver (1824-1863), married 1845 Helen Marr Chamberlain (1826-1905).
*  Henry Warren Seaver (1824-1899), married 1850 Mary Jane Harper (1829-1905).
*  Julius Horace Seaver (1825-1909), married (1) 1852 Martha Jane Herron (1826-1858), (2) 1865 Sarah Clerwater (1829-1909).
*  James E. Seaver (1828-1830).
*  Mary Ann Seaver (1831-1902), married 1848 States Kinney Corning (1826-1857).
*  Daniel L. Seaver (1833-1842).
*  Lyman Hunt Seaver (1835-1886), married 1865 Lovina E. Bell (1835-1908).
*  Rodney Seaver (1840-1923), married 1866 Myra Adeline Deane (1845-1923).
*  Willism Seaver (1842-1866), married 1866 Alice Jennette Bentley (1843-1912).

This estate file has 19 pages.  Julius H. Seaver and Henry W. Seaver were appointed administrators of the intestate estate of Lyman H. Seaver.  The inventory of the estate was taken, showing real property of $9,525 (280 acres on four parcels of land) and personal property of  $3,359.27 for a total estate of $12,884.27.  Commissioners were appointed to sell the property to distribute the estate to the seven living children, the four minor children of the deceased son, and the widow of the deceased.  The widow of John W. Seaver was appointed guardian of her four children.  There is no record of the sales proceeds, an administrator's account, or distribution of the estate to the heirs-at-law in the Estate Case File.

I am a 5th cousin 5 times removed to Lyman Hunt Seaver (1796-1864), with the common Seaver ancestor being my 9th great-grandfather Robert Seaver (1608-1683).

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NOTE: Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday." John offers this definition for "amanuensis:"

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

Read other transcriptions of records of my ancestors at Amanuensis Monday Posts.

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